• A chat with The Guys Upstairs

    As we get toward the end of the year, I sometimes re-read my journals to see how I spend it. A major part of “how I spent it” for me is  less what I was doing than what I was thinking about — or what (or who) I was communicating with. This, from last January,…

  • God is free

    I have found an awful lot of wisdom over the years in the novels of Dion Fortune. As a “for instance,” this from The Winged Bull, pages 155-157. It reminds me of an old Sufi saying, “Words are prisons; God is free.”

  • Communities of individuals

    This article interests me chiefly because it seems to correlate with what the guys upstairs have been telling me for some time now: We are not individuals so much as communities. That’s not what the authors of this study would say, of course, but it seems to me that their study indirectly supports what you’ll…

  • S.C. Exhibit highlights Hemingway prose

    Original article at http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/dec/18/exhibit-highlights-hemingway-prose/ Exhibit highlights Hemingway prose BY BRIAN HICKS bhicks@postandcourier.com Sunday, December 18, 2011 In the spring of 1935, Ernest Hemingway was lamenting the placement of his home on a list of Key West tourist attractions. His regular Esquire magazine column was devoted to his tongue-in-cheek protest that he had no desire to compete…

  • Hemingway on sexuality and loneliness

    One of the joys of keeping a journal, however diligently or not one does it, is the occasional review, the look back at roads trodden. Naturally, year-end is a convenient time. Found this conversation with Papa Hemingway which was of interest. Wednesday, April 13, 2011 7 AM. So, Papa, talk to me about loneliness. For I…

  • TGU on our life’s creations

    I wonder if anybody realizes that just because  I am willing to do a psychological strip-tease in public, it doesn’t mean I am necessarily always comfortable doing it. Nonetheless, I proceed, because I am persuaded that it is worth doing for what it may suggest to various people. This from my journal, rediscovered as I…

  • TGU: A shift in consciousness

    Here, dredged from my journals, a little perspective from our guys on the other side, a cheering message as we enter a new year. Monday, May 2, 2011 8:15 AM. Okay guys, you’re up. I can’t remember where we were, but presumably you can. You as ring-master of your far-flung community are in effect continually redefining…

  • Sitting in the top ten

    I see from the New Consciousness Review that their interview with me was one of the 10 most popular interviews of 2011. The hypertext listing brings you to a page that includes the interviews. Sitting in some pretty fast company there, too. Coming in just after Hank Wesselman ain’t bad! TOP 10 MOST POPULAR INTERVIEWS…

  • Hemingway book finished

    I feel like saying, “here I am again, back from the dead!” More to the point, I’m back from last revisions (I hope!) to Hemingway on Hemingway: Afterlife Conversations on His Life, His Work and the Myth, my seventh book, which is to be published later this year by Rainbow Ridge Books, the imprint owned…

  • It’s that it isn’t your work

    I can forget the damnedest things. Only because I was poking around in my journal, thinking to write a post about having been in  Charlottesville for a year come the 27th that I found this communication, written but never read into the computer, and therefore never printed out. I had finished my second draft of…